Monsoon rains unleashed flooding in Australia’s Queensland that have claimed the lives of two people as the week-long deluge dropped months of rainfall in a few days, devastating small rural towns on ...

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On the seventh stop, Minister for Tourism Andrew Powell welcomed more than 50 industry and community stakeholders in Bundaberg, who shared their ideas to help shape the future of the tourism industry.

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

Thermal drones are helping researchers find Bennett’s tree kangaroos in the rainforest canopy, revealing new insights to ...

Rangers at the turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead turtles ...

Charlize Zmuda, 17, died after being bitten by a shark off Woorim Beach, a popular spot in Queensland, on Monday afternoon.

As night fell across a remote region of northern Australia, a “velvet” creature emerged from a pile of rocks. Its hard-to-reach habitat and camouflaged coloring helped it go largely unnoticed — until ...

Clearly, no Australian government is likely to spend anything like that on protecting its native animals, even though it will ...

Australia has seen three fatal shark attacks in just a few weeks, with the most recent one killing a 17-year-old in ...

How did PFAS – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised ...

Photos online show she had her school formal in recent days and was a keen member of the island surf lifesaving club.